{
  "creator": [
    "Kőváry, Zoltán"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2011-11-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Psychobiography was invented by Sigmund Freud while investigating the  psychological determinants of Leonardo da Vinci’s artistic creativity.  Following the founder of psychoanalysis there were about 300  psychobiographic analyses published until 1960. From the 1930’s  psychoanalysis also influenced the unfolding personality psychology  trend called personology in the USA, led by G. W. Allport and Henry A.  Murray, who also worked with life stories. However, the major  methodological problems of classic psychobiography and the rising of  nomothetic approaches in personality research effaced studying lives  between the 1950’s and the 1980’s. The narrative turn in psychology made  life story analysis accepted and popular again, and from the 90’s we  can talk about “a renaissance of psychobiography”. The new endeavors  encompass psychoanalytical and personological traditions and also  integrate narrative perspectives. Contemporary psychobiography is  constantly widening its focus: not only artists, but scientists,  political and historical figures are also analyzed with more explicit  methodology and comparative proceedings. In addition to the fact that  psychobiography is a qualitative research method, it is very useful in  exploring the psychology of creativity and personality itself and hence  can be used as an instrument to train psychology students and prepare  them for practical activities like psychotherapy or consultations. With  the application of psychobiography the knowledge about human functioning  and self-awareness is deepening, since it can be viewed as a practical  realization of hermeneutical dialogue leading to the understanding of  the human mind."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/162",
    "10.5964/ejop.v7i4.162"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/162/162.pdf"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 7 No. 4 (2011); 739-777",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "psychobiography",
    "psychoanalysis",
    "personology",
    "creativity",
    "personality research",
    "education of psychologists",
    "dialogue"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Psychobiography as a method. The revival of studying lives: New perspectives in personality and creativity research"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}